THE SILENT BODY
It Knows What You Hide
Online CPD
Advanced Body Psychotherapy Workshop
Sunday, 11th October 2026
16:00-20:00 (UK) | 17:00-21:00 (EU) | 10:00-14:00 (USA-NY)
The body often learns to be silent, not because it has nothing to say, but because it has adapted in order to protect itself, from what was once too overwhelming and painful.
Beneath symptoms, emotions, narratives, and relational patterns, the body holds an implicit story.
It remembers what the mind has forgotten, what words cannot fully describe and express. It remains unfinished and waiting for a resolution within the organism.
This workshop is open to psychotherapists, counsellors, body psychotherapists, psychologists, coaches, and BodyMind practitioners from around the world.
WE WILL EXPLORE AND LEARN
How emotional experiences, unmet needs, developmental wounds, and memories become embodied and continue to influence our clients lives beyond conscious awareness.
How the body develops protective strategies, energetic holding patterns, and how these adaptations can be approached with respect, curiosity, and therapeutic sensitivity.
To listen beyond words - Developing and enhancing the ability to perceive subtle bodily signals, energetic shifts, relational cues, and somatic expressions that reveal what remains unspoken within the therapeutic encounter.
How to work with the body as a therapeutic field - Exploring the therapist’s capacity to attune to the organism’s natural movement toward regulation and healing, somatic resonance, and embodied presence.
The process from protection to transformation of deeply held patterns can gradually soften, allowing new experiences of safety, connection, authenticity, and embodied aliveness to emerge.
Practical tools for clinical practice while working with Biodynamic Psychotherapy principles, breath, grounding, somatic awareness, emotional expression, energetic flow, and relational processes which support integration, release, and greater vitality.
This workshop will include
- Theoretical understanding
- Biodynamic and somatic perspectives
- Guided experiential practices
- Clinical applications
- Relational and embodied exercises
- Reflective dialogue and integration
- Practical tools for therapeutic work
FACILITATORS
Gabriel Shiraz
Individual, couples, and group psychotherapist specialising in Body Psychotherapy. Senior teacher, trainer, and lecturer in body psychotherapy and BP4C – Body Psychotherapy for Couples- for many years. Teaches at the University of Haifa, the London School of Biodynamic Psychotherapy (LSBP), and other academic and professional settings internationally.
Certified member of the European & U.S. Association for Body Psychotherapy (EABP, USABP).
Anat Ben-Israel
A Biodynamic Body psychotherapist working with individuals, couples, and groups. A senior teacher, supervisor and trainer specialising in Biodynamic Psychotherapy. She has been holding professional trainings and teaching at the London School of Biodynamic Psychotherapy (LSBP) in England, Israel, USA and across Europe for nearly 40 years.
Member of the UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) and the European and U.S. Associations for Body Psychotherapy (EABP, USABP).
Workshop Details:
Title: THE SILENT BODY
Format: Live Zoom Workshop
Date: Sunday, 11th October 2026
Time:16:00-20:00 (UK) | 17:00-21:00 (EU) | 10:00-14:00 (USA-NY)
Standard Fee
75€
Reduced Fee
50€
Contact us
Anat Ben-Israel – +49 1575 3837745